With the win, Notre Dame advances to the semifinals at Mercer County Community College Wednesday, to face fifth-seeded Princeton Day School, who beat Ewing 74-56 today.

The best part? Williams’ humility.

His reply after the game when asked what his career high in points was: “28, from a while back.”

Correction: 30, from tonight.

Meaning: he wasn’t counting, and didn’t rush to find out immediately after.
Not even about his dunks.

So long as Notre Dame set the record straight that a 16-point comeback win against Nottingham on Jan. 20 wasn’t a one-time deal, he was fine.

Nottingham had a chance, and for three minutes that spanned two quarters forced six consecutive turnovers that could’ve closed a 16-10 hole, the Northstars shot just 2-for-6 on mostly fast-break chances.

Then came back-to-back 3s from Johnson and junior point guard DJ Ricci, who offered 10 bench points, and an alley-oop dunk from Williams, and that was that.

After the game, Turco called earlier losses to Hun and Trenton, inarguably the longest teams in the conference, times when “you don’t use your bigs right.” This wasn’t one of those times.

It’s not often a 17-point performance from Johnson, the program’s all-time leading scorer with over 1,500 career points, isn’t making headlines the next day.

Then again, it’s not often a 17-year-old puts on theatrics like these.